Mara Garza

Education

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2012

Visiting Scholar, University of Pittsburgh, 2013

Areas of Interest

Ethics and mind, their intersections, and historical interests in Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche

Profile

Mara is interested in ethics, mind, and their intersections in moral psychology, the structure of agency, artificial agents and virtual extension, self-governance and mental illness, practical cognition and moral feelings, and identity and gender. Visit Mara’s website.

STUDENT PROFILE

FACULTY PROFILE

Professor Wettstein has written three books—The Significance of Religious Experience, The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, and Has Semantics Rested On a Mistake?, and Other Essays. During the last decade an additional focus has been the philosophy of religion; he has published on topics like religious experience, awe, the problem of evil, and the viability of philosophical theology.

NEWS

Dear Colleagues, I am saddened to inform you that Bernd Magnus, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, passed away on November 3, 2014, at the age of 76. He was a long-time member of UCR’s Philosophy Department, serving as its Chair from 1972 to 1976 and, again, from 1979 to 1983. Born in Danzig, Germany, Prof. Magnus […]

Congratulations to John Martin Fischer, the first professor of philosophy to be appointed as University Professor by the University of California Board of Regents. The title is reserved for scholars of international distinction who are recognized and respected as teachers of exceptional ability. You may read more on his prestigious award here.